SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Open Assistant

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has had developers talking ever since it opened to the public last month. It is a chatbot that can do all sorts of amazing tasks: suggest code, convert code from one language to another, summarizing long text, answering questions, and so much more.  Now, a new open-source project has sprung up to provide … continue reading

Qoppa Software introduces new version of its library of Java PDF development tools

PDF solutions producer Qoppa Software announced the release of the latest version of its Java PDF development tools and components.  According to the company, Qoppa’s PDF processing and conversion SDK is intended to bring users features to help them create, view, edit, print, or sign PDF documents. This works to allow organizations to incorporate PDF … continue reading

2023 predictions for software development

2022 saw business and technology come together under the banner of value stream management, more uptake in microservices and other cloud-native technologies, and a greater emphasis on software quality and security. What will 2023 bring? These industry experts share their thoughts. Nick Durkin, Field CTO, Harness Measuring developer effectiveness in 2023 In 2023, we will … continue reading

The biggest security challenges of 2023

Security will continue to cause headaches in 2023. Not only will companies have to continue dealing with the normal issues like supply chain security and preventing ransomware, which they’ll continue to deal with, but a number of companies see other issues on the horizon for 2023.  Supply chain attacks are ones in which the attackers … continue reading

Google announces innovations in privacy-enhancing technologies

Google is continuing its work to keep personal data safe with the announcement of new privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs).  Over the last decade the PETs it has invented include Federated Learning, Differential Privacy, and Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).  From the company’s standpoint, this allows them to protect users’ personal data while also continuing to provide the … continue reading

Is API developer experience overrated?

A lot is being written about API Developer Experience (DX), and it sometimes feels like caring about DX is the most important aspect when it comes to what matters for API success. But is this really true? To be clear, I don’t mean to belittle the fact that DX is important, but it is equally … continue reading

SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Point-E

Point-E is OpenAI’s new system which produces 3D models from prompts in only 1-2 minutes on a single GPU. Generating 3D models was previously very different from the image generation models such as Dall-E because those can typically produce images within seconds or minutes while a state-of-the-art 3D model required multiple GPU hours to produce … continue reading

Microsoft Graph PowerShell v2 is now in public preview

Microsoft today announced that its Graph Powershell SDK v2 is now available in public preview. With this, users gain access to several new features. Among these features is the ability to write more robust scripts that are both less prone to errors and less ambiguous. V2 allows users to combine both production and preview in … continue reading

Data transliteration is essential for ensuring data quality

With today’s expectation for companies to be able to reach consumers around the world, language barriers have become a hurdle that organizations need to be able to overcome.  Data transliteration tools are designed to tackle this potential problem by working to convert fields or characters from one alphabet into another without maintaining the underlying meaning … continue reading

SD Times Q&A: Five things to look for in 2023

This time of year, organizations take stock of the year that’s ending and then strategize about what they want to accomplish in the year ahead. Forrester research director for software development Chris Gardner spoke with SD Times editor-in-chief David Rubinstein to talk about what they’re seeing for 2023. This is a transcript of that conversation, … continue reading

How Google improves video voice dubbing through deep learning

With less than 20% of the world’s population speaking English as their first or second language, Google is ramping up the efficiency of video voice dubbing with technologies for cross-lingual voice transfer and lip reanimation using deep learning and TensorFlow.  The first technology keeps the voice similar to that of the original speaker and the … continue reading

Scanbot SDK releases demo app for mobile Data Capture SDK

Scanbot, the company behind the Scanbot Software Development Kit (SDK), recently announced a new demo version of the Scanbot Data Capture SDK available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. According to the company, the Scanbot SDK rids companies of the need for error-prone manual data entry by allowing users to extract data … continue reading

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